Dave Nadel followed up,
| ...sorry -- I have never been told before that capitalizing a title or
| subject heading constituted "yelling."
Large amounts of text in caps lock are very hard on readers' eyes. Instead
of attracting attention they generally make people move on without reading.
| Can anyone suggest a means of over-writing the saved
| message-body text, rather than appending to it?
Well, that changes things. Procmail is not designed for that, so it has to
call cat and a shell, plus one has to name the local lockfile. So the
previous
:0bc: # implicit local lockfile name is bodies.txt$LOCKEXT
* LOGNAME ?? that_user
bodies.txt
becomes
:0bc:bodies.txt$LOCKEXT # lockfile name is not implicit, must be specified
* LOGNAME ?? that_user
| cat > bodies.txt
There isn't much call for overwriting rather than appending, so there is no
built-in way within procmail, no `t' (for "truncate") flag or anything like
that.
DWT
(I thought of a way to do it without a shell, but it's too ugly to let loose.)
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